Editor’s note: Welcome to the new Cult of Mac

Welcome to the new Cult of Mac! You probably noticed that we’ve freshened the place up a bit.

We have a new, minimalist design that we trust is easy to read and a pleasure to visit. We have new fonts, cleaner navigation, improved photo treatments and stories that are color-coded by category (news, reviews, how-tos and so on).

We also have a new, modern code base, which we hope will be a solid platform for lots more exciting things to come.

The main story section is now a continuous scroll, which should make it easier for you to find stuff to read. If you’re a regular visitor and come to the site’s front page every day, you can simply scroll down the story list as normal. But instead of hitting a “Page 2” button at the bottom, just keep scrolling — older posts will load automatically.

Same goes if you visit from a link and land on an individual story page. Once you get to the end of the comments, you’ll see a scroll of all the latest posts.

We like it a lot. We were influenced by sites like The Next Web and Time and Quartz, which have been using this type of design for a while. It’s a modern navigation scheme that’s well-suited to tablets. It’s great for blogs, making it really easy to peruse quite a lot of content, encouraging you guys to read more of our posts (we hope!).

Behind the scenes, the biggest change is that the site is fully responsive: It automatically resizes itself to whatever device you are viewing it on. The old site relied on a WordPress plugin to serve up a different version of the site for smartphones. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world, but it meant we essentially had two separate sites. If we made changes on one, we had to make changes on the other. A responsive site means we can do things just once.

One site to rule them all!

That’s the point: The redesigned site is a great platform for future updates. We will be rolling out all kinds of improvements going forward, from eye-popping multimedia galleries to an awesome new review template.

We’ve been working on this redesign for a looooooong time. It was a major undertaking. We owe a huge debt to our designer, KC Bradshaw of San Francisco design firm Exkclamation, who has done a phenomenal job, and to Pedro Dobrescu, Mihai Grescenko and the rest of the technical team at Presslabs (the best WordPress hosts in the world).

Fingers crossed that you are reading this OK and the site looks stellar, but you’ll probably see a few glitches here and there while we make the changeover. So please be kind, and leave your feedback in the comments. Even the harsh stuff helps — it tells us what to fix.

Hope you like it!

Leander Kahney
Editor and publisher

Leander Kahney

Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.

Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.

He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.

Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.

Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.

Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.

Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.

Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.

Leander is an expert on:

Apple and Apple history
Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook and Apple leadership
Apple community
iPhone and iOS
iPad and iPadOS
Mac and macOS
Apple Watch and watchOS
Apple TV and tvOS
AirPods

Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.

He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.

Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.

You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.